Thomas A. Davis, PhD  Biosorption Environmental Geology and Geochemistry	Recent Expeditions in Western Canada

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Phone:  Fax:  e-mail: tom@eps.mcgill.ca  e-mail: tdavis1973@yahoo.com  Bioenvironmental Lab  Mailing Address: Dept. of  Chem. Eng. McGill  University 3610 University Street  Montreal, Quebec, Canada H3A 2B2

Degrees:

• PhD, McGill University
• B.Sc. Honours Geology (1997), McGill University, Earth and Planetary Sciences

•  Biosorption and its applications to bioremediation
•  Microbial interactions with mineral surfaces
•  Environmental geology and geochemistry

• Dance Instructor, dance
• Mountaineering
• Hiking, canoeing, sculpture

• Davis, T.A., B.Volesky and R.H.S.F. Viera (accepted: 2000) Sargassum seaweed as biosorbent for heavy metals  Water Research
• Fein, J.B., Daughney, C.J. Yee, N., and Davis, T.A. (1997)  A chemical equilibrium model for metal adsorption onto bacterial surfaces Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta.  61 (16) pp. 3319-3328.

• Davis, T.A., F. Llanes, A. Mucci and B. Volesky (1999) Variation of alginate conformation from a global sampling of Sargassum species and its implications for heavy metal binding in the biosorption process.  II International Congress on Biomaterials, Biomat'99, Havana, Cuba, November 1-5, 1999.
• Fein, J.B., and Davis, T.A., (1996) Surface properties of Bacillus subtilis determined by acid/base titrations, and the implications for metal adsorption in fluid-rock systems. American Chemical Society Spring Meeting, New Orleans. May 1996.
• Fein, J.B., Boily, J.-F., Daughney, C.J., Davis, T. A., Wightman, P.G., Yane, L.J. and Yee N. (1996) The thermodynamics of metal adsorption onto bacterial surfaces.  Abstracts with programs, 28, GSA Annual Meeting 1996, page A29.

• Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences
• Professor B. Volesky, Deparment of Chem. Eng., Supervisory Commitee
• Professor A. Mucci, Department of EPS, Supervisory Committee 
• McGill Center for Pulp and Paper
• McGill School of the Environment